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Henry Chichester Hart served as naturalist on the Palestine Exploration Fund’s 1883 Palestine Expedition. The Animals Mentioned in the Bible condenses his and other scholars’ observations of Holy Land fauna. Hart describes Bible animals, emphasizing the characteristics to which the Bible refers. When identification is difficult, he describes the various possibilities and lets the reader decide....

The term nesher is invariably translated ‘eagle’ in the Bible. In some of the passages where it occurs it is obvious that the ‘eagle’ of the Bible translators may be more specifically rendered ‘vulture,’ or ‘griffon vulture.’ In Mic. 1:16, ‘Make thee bald and poll thee for the children of thy delight; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle,’ can only refer to the vulture, which is devoid of true feathers on the head and neck. Again, in Jer. 49:16, and in Job